Kids today are lucky if they get a "social studies" class, never mind history as such.
Here's the offending "weapon":
Posted on 09/28/2013 1:15:47 PM PDT by Rusty0604
A 12-year-old boy was suspended from a Coventry middle school after his parents said he brought a small gun keychain to school.
Joseph Lyssikatos said the keychain was in his backpack at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School on Thursday when it fell out. A classmate picked it up and started showing it to other students.
A teacher confiscated it and before Joseph knew it, he was suspended.
Speaking to talk host Matt Allen, on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO, Joseph’s father, Keith Bonanno, said that school officials have not been anxious to speak with the family. The school’s behavioral specialist told Mr. Bonanno that Joseph is “lucky that he didn’t get suspended for ten days, or even worse expelled.”
Joseph’s parents are especially concerned about the effect of his three day absence on his studies. His father told Allen that he had no absences last year, and that his advanced math class covers “two chapters a week.” Just 26% achieved “proficient with distinction” on the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) tests conducted last year.
In the interview with channel 10, Joseph told Gugliotta that his suspension will lead to his missing the NECAP testing this year.
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Suspended for what excactly?
I wonder if their history classes ever show a pic or a vid of a gun or cannon?
What the hell is a "behavoral specialist"? If it was my kid, I would haul their ass into court so fast it would make their heads spin!!!
Kids today are lucky if they get a "social studies" class, never mind history as such.
Here's the offending "weapon":
And this kid is at the head of his class in math and will now miss his test. I wonder if they would do that if the student was a struggling minority? Didn’t Eric Holder say we have discipline inequality?
Should mail the school photos of guns. Maybe they could use them to stop a school shooting since the photos are so dangerous
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain.
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There needs to be a bunch of new state laws that try to put some common sense back into schools.
1) Require schools to distinguish between real, tangible threats and imaginary ones, prohibiting punishment for the latter, be it a tiny toy gun or a Pop-Tart shaped like a gun, a child’s finger, a plastic butter knife, etc.
2) Make all “zero tolerance” policies subject to the judgment of principals. If no harm was intended or likely, there should be no discipline for a child.
3) Schools can only request police support when a child is engaged in behavior likely to harm themselves or others, and cannot be controlled by the faculty or administration.
4) Lawsuits against schools can only be made after asserting physical abuse, or neglect resulting in injury, for actual damages.
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All he did was ask if it would be OK and the teacher said sure as long as it was not connected to an airtank and was not loaded. His classmates had fun passing it around. Thank God there are normal schools left in the world.
I don’t know if you can legislate common sense, especially with school administrators.
It is sad that we would have to propose a law that school employees learn the difference between a pop tart and a handgun.
Good thing it wasn’t one of those deadly pop tart guns.
I was a child during WWII.
All we did was “shoot” at each other.
My generation is not thought to be violent,crazed,or murderous because of it.
The country has gone stark,raving mad.
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Why not every parent in the school send their child in with the same keychain? That would be the funnest day of the year for every parent and child!
I wonder what would happen if some kids were caught playing “Clue” during lunch? That revolver could be a murder weapon!
If the boy’s parents actually gave a damn about his education and future they would never have put him into a public education day prison. If they do it now it is only from embarrassment.
Parents should hire a lawyer right away and apply to the court for a restraining order against the school district preventing them from keeping the kid from taking his test. Tyranny in any form should be vigorously opposed in any way possible!!
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